Laura Ball
San Diego, California
Laura's work is a psychoanalytical/environmental project that digs into the collective unconscious.
Message
Laura Ball’s work combines her technical achievements in watercolor with an ongoing part-psychoanalytical, part-environmental project she has explored for over fifteen years. She received her MFA in 2004 from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ball has exhibited at the Denver Art Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum, the US Embassy in Stockholm, the Strozzina (Florence, IT), the Hudson River Museum, the San Diego History Center, David B. Smith Gallery (Denver, CO), and Morgan Lehman Gallery (New York, NY), among others. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Denver Art Museum, LACMA, the Cleveland Clinic, JPMorganChase, Fidelity Investments, 21C, the Progressive Collection, UC San Diego Health, Roanoke College, Sonoma State University and the West Collection.
She currently lives and works in San Diego with her cat-child, Mowgli.
Statement
In my new work I venture into the discomfort of exploration and practice "getting lost". Leaving the comfort of familiarity I find new footing in the visionary imagination, manifesting a world rich with benevolent and malignant forces that shape natural phenomena and define the topography of an expanding landscape. These scenes are inspired by wishful thoughts of Animism, journeys of mythic heroes, Egyptian origin stories and my own adventures in search of rare plants in San Diego and beyond.
I am the first person to walk in this landscape and when I appeared, the sun was glad to see my shadow.